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Howard Community College (Student)

STARTALK Intensive Language Learning Experience

Language(s)

Arabic, Chinese

Grade Level(s)

9-12

Date(s)

July 2, 2018 – August 2, 2018: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Howard County Community College, Columbia, MD

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

HCC will provide summer courses in Arabic and Chinese to 60 high school students in Howard County. HCC will recruit students from grades 9 – 12 from public, private, and homeschools in the county and will provide them with 86 hours of instruction over five weeks from July 2 through August 2. Outcomes include: exiting participants at the novice mid or novice high level, increasing understanding of Arabic and Chinese speaking cultures, recruiting learners to continue with second semester language offerings in the fall semester, exposing learners to potential career opportunities requiring the knowledge and skills in a critical language, and continuing to promote heightened awareness and conversation around Arabic and Chinese language and cultural issues in the community throughout the academic year.

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HEB ISD (Student)

STARTALK Better Together

Language(s)

Arabic, Chinese, Hindi

Grade Level(s)

6-8, 9-12

Date(s)

June 5, 2018 – June 21, 2018: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Central Junior High School, Euless, TX

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

HEB ISD’s “STARTALK: Better Together” language academy will provide three weeks / 72 hours of student-centered learning and instruction in Hindi, Arabic, or Chinese to rising 6th and 7th graders, and intermediate level practice for 8th-11th grade students, as well as exposure to all three languages. Projected enrollment for Arabic, Hindi, and Chinese is 50 students per language, comprising 30 novice 6th and 7th graders and 20 intermediate students. At the end of this academy, we expect rising 6th and 7th grade students to achieve novice low-to-mid level oral proficiency in their language of choice and upper grades students to achieve intermediate low-to-mid level. We anticipate that approximately 90% of our 7th grade students will continue in the language course in the fall at our district. For intermediate students, we expect their scores on the IB exams to reflect the benefits of additional language practice and cultural experience.

Contact(s)

HADI-CLASSRoad (Teacher)

STARTALK: Planning for Engaged Language Learning

Language(s)

Arabic, Chinese, Persian

Date(s)

June 18, 2018 – July 17, 2018: (Online)

Location(s)

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

CLASSRoad’s 2018 fully-online STARTALK program will provide opportunity for thirty-five (35) intermediate and master Arabic, Chinese and Persian language teachers to focus on TELL Planning Domain P6 (a and c) criteria, Learning Experience Domain LE2 (a and b) criteria, LE4 (a and b) criteria, building their ability to: 1) use the backward design process to plan for meaningful student engagement, 2) create daily performance objectives that capture student energy and commitment and that move them toward proficiency targets, and 3) provide comprehensible input while using the target language 90% of the time. The program will include asynchronous/ synchronous interaction among instructors and participants, feature video presentations by experts, formative assessments, discussions, observations of recorded online language teaching examples--including video from previous year teacher participants--peer learning and feedback, peer microteaching practice, online co-teaching of remote language students, and self-assessment and personal growth plan development. The four-week program (80 contact hours) will feature three weeks of module-based daily instruction and group work, including online synchronous presentations by guest experts, several days of peer microteaching and preparation, followed by a fourth week that involves co-teaching to remote novice target language students, along with peer observation, personal reflection and professional planning. The program will be fully delivered online using the CLASSRoad Canvas learning management system and the web-conference platform Adobe Connect, which allows for adaptive design, improved mobile accessibility, the giving of timely feedback, and the course to be structured in an innovative and highly interactive manner.

Contact(s)

Fauquier County Public Schools (Student)

FCPS STARTALK 2018: My Journey

Language(s)

Arabic, Turkish

Grade Level(s)

3-5, 6-8

Date(s)

July 9, 2018 – July 26, 2018: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Warrenton Middle School, Warrenton, VA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

The Fauquier County 2018 STARTALK program includes 12 instructional days beginning July 9, 2018 and ending July 26, 2018 with total instructional time equaling 65 hours including extended day field trips. New and returning students who are rising fifth to ninth graders will be accepted into differentiated classes with expected novice-mid to intermediate-low proficiency levels. Our program theme will be "My Journey" and will explore authentic practices and products related to traveling to locations that speak the target language. Students will embark on their own journey where they will be able to greet people they meet and exchange information about their trip with others.

Contact(s)

Bayan Claremont (Student)

STARTALK Legacy of Arabic Literary Culture

Language(s)

Arabic

Grade Level(s)

9-12, Undergraduate

Date(s)

July 5, 2018 – August 9, 2018: (Online)

Location(s)

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

Our fully online Arabic program for high school and college students targets the novice mid and novice high proficiency levels and will consist of daily synchronous and asynchronous language learning experiences (Mon-Thurs). We aim to enroll up to 38 students, providing a total of 100 hours of instruction over five weeks of online language study. The theme of our updated program is classical Arabic literary heritage. By the end of our program, students will know about genres of Arabic literature, famous persons, interesting locales, and will be able to talk with others about cultural exchange and influence, and will have enhanced their abilities in the modes of communication as a foundation for further intermediate level study. They will be able to present information on historical eras and figures, stories from Arab culture, and aspects of daily life that have changed and/or remained the same.

Contact(s)

Northeastern Illinois University (Teacher)

STARTALK: NEIU Teacher Training Program

Language(s)

Arabic

Date(s)

June 4, 2018 – June 29, 2018: Entire Program (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

STARTALK: Summer 2018 Training Program for Teachers of Arabic aims to train a group of approximately 20-25 Arabic language educators of elementary age students. The outcomes of the program are twofold. First, the program will develop teachers who are competent in implementing standards based Arabic language instruction in their classrooms as a result of their participation in the program. Second, the candidates will participate in 60 instructional hours of teacher training activities spread out over three weeks in June 2018. They will ultimately learn how to integrate culture, content, and language in Arabic instruction at various proficiency levels and needs.

Contact(s)

VMIRL (Student)

Opening and Running a Moroccan Restaurant

Language(s)

Arabic

Grade Level(s)

9-12, Undergraduate

Date(s)

June 25, 2018 – July 19, 2018: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

At the conclusion of the program, our students will have the linguistic and cultural skills necessary to interact with Arabic speakers on basic, everyday topics, especially the topic of food. We will recruit 20 or 22 students to participate in this intensive STARTALK Arabic program. Our participants will be high school seniors and college students (grades 12-16). Their proficiency level in Arabic will be Novice-High by the conclusion of the program. We will conduct about 94 instructional hours throughout a four-week period, to extend from June 25th to July 19th, 2018.

University of Minnesota (Teacher)

STARTALK:Transitioning to Teaching Language Online

Language(s)

Date(s)

June 11, 2018 – July 1, 2018: Main Program (Online)

July 2, 2018 – July 8, 2018: Optional ePortfolio Work (Online)

Location(s)

Completely online program, , MN

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

Experienced classroom teachers of beginning levels of critical languages will be selected to participate in the “STARTALK: Transitioning to Teaching Language Online” (STARTALK:TTLO) program and will work entirely online with the instruction and support of experienced online program instructors.

The program will be offered as an intensive three-week summer course (June 11 - July 1, 2018) for critical language teachers. Outcomes will include improving the participant teachers’ ability to 1) analyze their experiences as an online students and online language students; 2) articulate the differences between teaching online and teaching in the classroom; 3) design successful online, proficiency-oriented language activities within the three communication modes framework, and 4) identify basic principles of how to design, develop, and deliver their own hybrid or online course. The program includes online language mini-lessons that will be conducted as a “class-within-a-class” so that language learning activities set within the framework of the three communication modes, learner behaviors and needs, online design and expectations, and best practices for teaching online can be modeled and analyzed, created and tested, and peer-critiqued in a safe environment. Participants will be engaged in active for approximately 120 hours total for the program, depending on the needs and skills of the participants.

Contact(s)

SDSU Research Foundation (Student)

STARTALK Arabic,Chinese,Persian Combined Prog

Language(s)

Grade Level(s)

9-12

Date(s)

July 9, 2018 – August 3, 2018: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Language Acquisition Resource Center at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

LARC at SDSU will offer a four-week language instruction in Arabic, Chinese, Dari, and Persian languages to 40 non-heritage students (10 for each language program) from July 9th to August 3rd. The program will be open to students in grades 9-12 with no prior knowledge of the language. Camp instructors will be L1 speakers of the target languages, experienced teachers familiar with the US education system, ACTFL OPI, and WPT certified/trained testers/raters, and fellows of the California World Language Project (CWLP). Upon successful completion, the students are awarded ​four units of undergraduate college credit through the SDSU College of Extended Studies.

Contact(s)

Patterson Joint Unifiied School District (Student)

MOSAAIC: Multilingual Opportunities for Students

Language(s)

Arabic

Grade Level(s)

K-2, 3-5, 6-8

Date(s)

June 4, 2018 – June 29, 2018

Location(s)

Walnut Grove K-8 School, Patterson, CA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

STARTALK: MOSAAIC – Multilingual Opportunities for Students in Arabic Arts, Innovation, and Culture, establishes a four-week, 120-hour summer intensive language learning program for K-8 students in Patterson, CA to acquire mid to high novice levels of Arabic language and cultural competence through the arts and cultures of Arabic-speaking communities. The program offers students daily opportunities every day to use their emerging Arabic language capacities to create culturally responsive art and to communicate in culturally and linguistically authentic and meaningful ways. Largely project-based, MOSAAIC guides students in developing technical language and acquiring skill in using the tools of their chosen arts disciplines. MOSAAIC classroom staff are well-known professionals in their arts area of focus, thereby ensuring a level of rigor and credibility for the program. The program will also support 75 hours of staff professional collaboration, learning and reflection to create the target classroom learning plans, plan student and family activities, and enhance their language teaching and arts integration skills.

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About STARTALK

STARTALK is a project funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical-need foreign languages, with programs for students (K-16) and teachers. MORE